POLICY AND PRACTICE - Populism and the Rise of Autocracy

<p>To discuss these worldwide trends, how to counter them, and how worried we should be about a populist rise in the UK, we are joined by three international experts:</p><ul><li>Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends</li><li>Rory Stewart, former Cabinet Minister and 2019 candidate for the Conservative Party leadership, now Senior Fellow at Yale University</li><li>Professor Nadia Urbinati, author of Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy</li><li><strong>Chair: </strong>Professor Meg Russell, Director of the Constitution Unit.</li></ul><p><strong>Further Reading</strong></p><ul><li>Anne Applebaum - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/12/anne-applebaum-how-my-old-friends-paved-the-way-for-trump-and-brexit">How my old friends paved the way for Trump and Brexit</a></li><li>Anne Applebaum - <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/how-beat-populists-when-facts-dont-matter/615082/">How to beat populists when facts don't matter</a></li><li>Rory Stewart - <a href="https://www.rorystewart.co.uk/what-is-wrong-with-us/">What is wrong with us?</a></li><li>Nadia Urbinati  - <a href="https://www.lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2019/05/19/nadia-urbinati-populism-its-not-fascism-and-also-democracies-are-elastic/">Populism? It’s not fascism, and also democracies Are “Elastic”</a></li><li>Nadia Urbinati  - <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-08-06/pandemic-hasnt-killed-populism">The pandemic hasn’t killed populism</a></li></ul>